Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-09-10
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The business failures occurring through
ont the country during the last seven day!
number l52
A sui.. it is said, will be brought to tes
the RICH. Of Postmaster General Villas TO re
move an ex Union soidie: from office.
Yesterday was the thirty seventh anniver
sary Of thu admission OF California into tht
Unioa and was celebrated throughout thai
State.
Tbo steamer Umbria from New York for
terday Tune Of passage six days, four
hours Nu,i twca!y five minutes.
1t is reported that the cruiser Intrepid
captured an American schooner Of i ton:
within tho three mile limit eff Campobelo
Thursday, and took her into port
1t is generally believed that Col F. d
Grant, son of the late President, will he
nominated for Secretary OF State by the New
York republican convention which meets
next week.
Lapp. Goldsmiih.& Co., extensive whole
sale liquor aud tobacco dea 'ess, Louisville
Ky, fled deed Of assignment yesterday
The liabilities are estimated at 500 COO
nominal asscls, $50 600.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company has
refused to alo7 merchants going to Phile'
dephia TO the constitutional Convention
! celebration to stop over in Baltimore on the
two-cents a.milo tickets.
MIS-. Cleveland, accompanied by he.
mother and Col. Wilson, spent yesterday in
New York and returned 10 Washington in
the evening The ladies made the rounds
CT the dry goods stores, but escaped recogni
ton.
Four men, supposed to be fliblsterers from
Key West, recently landed near Matanz,s,
Cuba Taty made their way to the Vista
Hermosa estate, where they were surprised
By force of the civil guard, tut succeeded
in escaping to the forest.
The City OF Rome, of the Anchor Line,
which arrived at New York yesterday, car
ried OO0 passengers, among them being,
Thistle, and George l.. Watson, the de-
signer Of tbs yacht.
1t was reported on the New York Stock
Exchange yesterday that Jay Gould had
bought the Baltimore and Ohio telegraph
900 in Western Union stock, but the report
was afterwards con,tadicted.
Jay Gould complains that his name has
been used unfairly by the bears, and says
II do not wish ever 10 return TO the street.
Should 1 ever dc so Temporarily it will be be-
cause AN goaded into il, and in that case
1 will hang some ones hide on the fe zee as
warning to others who may be inclined to
persisten;ly rnisrep:esent ny position"
Az stated in TIE GAZETTE Rose, the
bunker of Baltimore. was hanged yesterday
in the jail yard at 12:43 p. IN. The execu-
ton was conducted without hitch. The
condemned men made speech, saying it
vras hard for him to die. when others who
were partners in the crime escaped. He
warned. everybody TO let whisSey alone
He showed some siers Of Weakening
just before the drop fell.
"A Brooklyn N. W paper publishes a
story to The effect that Cardinal Gibbons
suppressed the appeal in tee McGiynn case,
which had bcon forwarded to him for pro-
sentatiou at Rome, but that he has been con.
WINGED that ii was mistake, and has writ
ten to Rome 10 that effect, and that the Nc
Glynu cssc may be reopened. The same
paper asserts that Miss Caldwell has with
drawn her subscription of 100000 to the
Catholic university.